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There are times when you need to move WordPress around within your server, and times when you need to move WordPress from one server to another. You don't need to reinstall. WordPress is flexible enough to handle all of these situations.

I am migrating non-wp database to Wordpress (for the first time in my life, and hopefully the last).
As both new and old websites are multilingual, one of the tasks for me is to connect the articles ...

I have this scenario: about 200 photo galleries to recreate in Wordpress from an old wordpress site.
All I have is the .xml WXR for the post_type "photogallery" that basically creates the gallery and ...

I need to migrate some information that are store in the post body (like "price:200$"), extrapolate them somehow and put them into custom fields. how do I do that?
The blog is about restaurants and ...

this issus is different fromm How to migrate wordpress users from one blog to another
since i am using WPMU, i have backup the database, and then import it to the other host, also i have changed the ...

We have a bit of situation here. We have a website (let's say it is www.oldsite.com) where we had more than 2000 posts. There arose a need whereby we had to move some 60-70 posts from this oldsite.com ...

I am trying to convert a website on CMS Made Simple (GitHub account) onto Wordpress. I have researched online extensively only to find no substantial content to help me.
Is there a potential script ...

I have to migrate the posts of a very old custom legacy blog made in ASP (the posts are stored in a MySql table) into a new WordPress blog.
So I need your help to find the smartest solution to do it, ...

I've followed most Wordpress migration guides that I can find. The steps I've taken sum up to the following:
Export my wp database from the existing production site
Spin up a new Ubuntu Server with ...

I’m about to revoke my Managed WordPress subscription because tools that I have paid for (such as WP Migrate DB Pro) that are an integral part of my development process that sync or migrate my local ...

Hi this is my first time using WordPress and I'm having a nightmare trying to migrate a locally built site to a hosting server.
I exported my local database (MySQL 5.6.17) then tried to upload it to ...

I'm developing a site that has been migrated live but now every page except for the home page 404s upon linking to it.
I've done extensive research on this and nothing has helped. Let me list out the ...

My wordpress is hosted on godaddy. Initially we had a shared host -which used a multisite distribution- then migrated to a VPS (our own server). The multisite version of wordpress remains and I want ...

I am working on wordpress 4.0
I have uploaded a WordPress site on live server and have done all the changes in database files and config and site is working properly with index page, but when i click ...

I am trying to migrate my website from my localhost to a server.
I am trying to export data from the export plugin of wordpress and import the xml file into the other database. That data importation ...

I want to copy a live site onto my local host. I loaded BitNami Stack for WordPress 3.8-0 and then update the version of WordPress to 4.0. The live site is a WordPress site, so I used the Duplicator ...

I have a live multisite and a development version of the live multisite.
The top level sites are different, but all the other sites are (or more accurately, will be) the same.
I need to export one of ...

I created a wordpress site to replace my old site. Currently, the wordpress site is stored in a subdirectory 'devsite' in the /public_html folder on my server.
Problem is, as I was trying to change ...

I need help with a rather daunting issue that I'm grappling with. I've migrated a client site from one host to another. Everything went fine except for one major issue pertaining to images attached to ...

Our development stack includes creating sub sites on a dev server and push to the production server when the sub site is complete. However, migrating these sites has been tricky and time consuming. ...

I'm trying to get my old posts from a WP install that was in a sub-directory on my site, into a new Multisite install on a new host.
The new install is doing what it should. the problem is the posts ...

i was working on a wordpress blog under a test domain (example.com/blog/) and now i want to move it under its own domain which is on the same server but different vhost.
After googling a bit i found ...

I just moved my WordPress 3.9 site to a different host by making a mysql dump and restoring it on the new server and uploading the files over. Pretty standard.
However, now I've lost the ability to ...

I just moved my wordpress multisite to a new host and all the pages expect the homepage keep getting the follower error
Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 ...

I am getting very confused. I used to take my website on my dev. server, and copy the files over to my live server, export the database in phpMyAdmin, import it via phpMyAdmin into the new database ...